Update on Investigators

Hey everyone! Como estan??

I hope that all is well back at home. Things here are heating up, but Elder Peterson and I are starting to get so real solid tan lines :) Anyways, we have been working with a couple named [...] and [...], but this week they told us they weren't interested anymore. Well we asked if we could continue teaching their 12-year old son [...], who had sat down in the last lesson and seemed really interested. Luckily they gave us permission. 

We came back this week to see him, and he is doing really great. We left him with Alma 37:35-37, but he ended up reading the whole chapter, as well as various others! He said he prayed about it too! And then we came by on Sunday and brought him to three hours of church with us. And despite not having any jovenes his age, he seemed to like it so that was pretty awesome! 

Also, while we were walking him to church, we came across some guy named [...] who we met last week at a community service project we went to. He told us he was baptized as a little boy. but hasn't gone since. We hadn't been able to find him for a charla yet, but upon running into him again in the street, we invited him to church, and he actually ended up coming! 

On Wednesday, the two missions in Uruguay went to Montevideo for a big conference with Bishop Dean Davies from the General Bishopric of the church. He is a really amazing and humble guy. After his talk, it was super cool because he and his wife sand a duet of ´Amad a otros´ and the the two missions joined in to sing a second verse. The Spirit there was really strong.

After the conference, the new missionaries (Elder Peterson) and the finishing missionaries all got to go to the temple and so returned to their areas a day later. Meanwhile, I was on divisions here in T-Bo with Elder Ribeiro and Elder Bowler. I was a fun day. We went to a recent convert in Barrio 5 for a lesson but he wasn´t home, so we instead ended up teaching this convert´s great-grandma who was aactually super cool. She accepted fecha in the first lesson, and came to church on Sunday (for Barrio 5). We also visited another one of their investigators named Gladys who has fecha for this week as well. And she is SO funny! She kept shouting ´HALLELUIAH´ in the middle of the lesson because she couldn´t contain her excitment to get baptized hahaha. I love Uruguayans, they are the funniest people.

Les quiero a todos tambien. Gracias por ayudarme estar aqui. La mision es una gran bendicion la verdad! Siento muy agredecido por tener un Padre Celestial que me conoce y tambien una familia tan especial. Yo amo el Evangelio de Jesucristo!! Sé que esta es su iglesia! Es una bendicion ser parte de ella. Espero que todos estan leyendo el Libro de Mormón!! Just do it! Que tengan una buena semana!! Chau chau!

Elder Layton